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I personally feel that the left's insistence, even if there is some truth to it, that poor white people can't be compared to poor black people is what has helped lead us to Trump. I'm not going to say their hardships are equal, but I feel like there could be a lot done to support both, but politically it's better to pit them against each other as nothing gets done for either. A true merit based system, assuming we could eliminate all other factors may not be the best either though, thus why diversity is such a great thing. People are different, even people from the same race, religion, and sex. How people react, struggle, achieve things in life give a different perspective. I'm right back where I was earlier, I don't like affirmative action, but I feel like this direction isn't the best for us.

They are also doing this under marshal law and there are complaints that it's not just 'Russian elements' but rather some that are simply critical of Zelensky, albeit small complaints. Also I wouldn't so quickly assume everything bad and corrupt in that country was due to Russian influence and once they arrest those folks they'll be inundated with a surplus of completely honest brokers looking to lead Ukraine into the promised land.

Not a good outcome at all, and to clarify, my comment was said in jest while pointing to the large universities. Seems like the biggest of the big are always scrounging for more money, as their endowments continue to grow. It gets annoying. You correctly point out others aren't in the same boat.

This is important as we know colleges are struggling to make money.

I'm conflicted on this as well. Instead of just race based, is there an argument schools can make for a certain percentage to be based on financial consideration alone? For instance, X percent of students must be getting max contributions related to financial aid? I guess percentage wise that still wouldn't ensure the numbers we see under affirmative action. I don't like affirmative action, but I also don't like a scenario without it. I wish most race discussions could be talked about in terms of class discussions as I've felt making everything about race pits two groups of people, poor blacks and poor non-blacks, against each other, despite having a lot more similarities than they realize.

I don't know the whole context, but whoever she was on the show with is the one that said this was wildly taken out of context. She's a bit crazy, so i'm not going to jump to her side, but it's also only Roseanne Barr and I don't care enough to go listen to it to make my own judgement.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/23/wagner-chief-accuses-russias-military-of-attack-and-says-evil-leadership-must-be-stopped

Yup, this and a claimed quote where Prighozin said he'll march his troops to Moscow and kill anyone that gets in his way to remove Shoigu before returning to Ukraine to get the job done.

I'm having trouble with my browser copying over, but Twitter is lighting up with reports that Russian forces purposefully hit Wagner forces and Prigozhin stating he will march his forces to Moscow. Holy **** if true.

I listened a bit to some perspective on this yesterday and what a bunch of crap from so many levels. While the conflicts of interest are obvious (oddly I suspect folks to agree with me for some reason now), the fact that WSJ allowed Alito to get out ahead of it via their own paper is utterly ridiculous.

I like Hurd's entrance for only one reason, he says he will refuse to sign the pledge in case Trump wins. Between him, Christie saying he'll sign it but honor it the same way Trump would, and Asa trying to add amendments which poke at Trump, more spotlight needs to be put on it to humiliate the GOP.

My buddy can speak to this. He was visiting his parents a few years ago and they had him come out and play pickleball with them. His back and foot hurt for a week after, he had trouble getting out of bed the following day. 70+ year old parents were fine though.

Absolutely could be true, in fact if I was wagering money, it would be on your take. But to sum it up as pure propaganda is not much different than what we see out of pigsmuggler on anything that doesn't fit what he wants to be true.

Yup, but Ukraine should have every right to enter into a peace deal if they want to. If (and that's a strong if because like I said, right now we only have Putin saying it) but if this is true, this goes against everything that all you 'Rah Rah, Go Ukraine Go' folks have chanted for the past year. "Give them everything they want" has been the mantra if I remember correctly.

Obviously take it with a grain of salt, but while hosting world leaders from Africa, Putin stated Russia and Ukraine entered into an agreement in their talks in Turkey last year, only to have Ukraine eventually ghost them. I'm not saying I believe him, but that does match up with reports and the well publicized trip of Boris Johnson going to Ukraine. At the very least it should be asked, unfortunately the anti-russian propaganda machine is so ingrained here that it won't be asked.

I enjoy the fact that I can say I live north of Canada.

Just to note from my POV, this is exactly what is happening with Biden in regards to Ukraine. Based on reports about Nordstream, long range weapons, and even rushing Ukraine into NATO, from a zealous (and arguably righteous) standpoint, it's easy to give or greenlight everything Ukraine asks for or wants, but it seems whenever there is hesitation on our part, it seems like we later hear reports that Biden specifically is the one that is worried about the overzealousness and has pushed back.

It's the same mentality as we see in Congress and with Trump's adminitration, they had to stay and they have to do whatever is necessary to stay, so that in the event they need to put the brakes on something, they are there. Yet every crossroads, they pick the 'stay' path versus the 'it's time to push back' path.

I'm not sure how moderate she is, however for the issues she pushes the most, which I tend to disagree with her end point views the most, I actually wouldn't mind her in charge. I still have my conservative roots and want to see businesses rewarded for doing good work, but the pendulum has swung to far and we need more minds like Warren correcting some of those issues.

I'm actually excited about Christie being in this race. I see no chance of him winning, but I kind of think he knows that too. I feel like it's a kamikaze mission. Having a huge pool fighting each other is great for Trump, but I feel like Christie could knock some folks out soon and when it's down to just a few folks, these comments he's making are going to make it into the Trump backing folks.

That steel plant that Ukrainians held out in for so long had a contingent that was part of a far right nationalist group, some wearing Nazi symbols. CNN was the first I was aware of to blur out those symbols while honoring those fighters. That said, you're talking about a small subset. Even in the US we have far right nationalist folks, ironically you support the same politicians that they do.

Is there consensus on if it has even started yet?

And to further this, Taiwan is definitely more important to the US than Ukraine, so if we're going to support Ukraine like we are, Xi can only imagine what we'll do for Taiwan.

He has some legitimate points, but 1) I don't see Ukraine or even Europe agreeing to what he's saying even if we pulled our military support and 2) he's refusing to look at the benefits in terms of the deterrent China has to see in terms of world support for Ukraine. There is an argument that Xi would be fine being a bit more isolated and dealing with that fallout if he were to go after Taiwan, but I don't think he would want to deal with it at the point of what Xi is seeing Russia deal with.

And yet, despite a 30 second clip of what possibly appears to show some bad fighting technique, they've been able to hold off the entirety of the Russian army for the past year.